only six democrats voted for the bill today. joining us sam stien, daniel dale is also with us. adam, how do you see this play unfolding on the senate floor tonight? one of the things you re seeing tonight is more manipulation by mitch mcconnell because one of the secrets of the senate is it can move very fast when it wants to. the bill that came over from the house could be voted on tonight. but they re trying to show they can defeat it and leave another day in negotiations. and a day in negotiation terms, especially this close to a deadline is eons. so mitch mcconnell is preventing a vote from happening.
another thing interesting about lindsey graham, he also said he would not vote for the house passed cr, which tells you something. which is that mitch mcconnell may not have 50 republican votes for the partisan house passed bill. so mitch mcconnell has probably failed to get a majority of his republicans to vote for his bill. there s a bipartisan that will pass easily. but he can t get the votes for the house cr. so he s leaning on democrats to cover for his own failure. i ve been wondering about that myself, and i ve been wondering about whether the democrats and chuck schumer should drop any 60-vote threshold and watch this go to a vote on the senate floor and see if it fails on the majority
the president is always looking to assign blame. is he at this point assigning blame inside the white house that we are at the government shutdown threshold. so far president trump is blaming democrats for the fact that there might be a government shutdown and specifically the fact that they want to see the pathway for citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers in a bill pass here, however if you look at what the president said this morning, it was the president who undermined his own strategy by sending out the tweet about the children s health insurance program, which muddied the waters on whether or not he supported the short term resolution. and then you had paul ryan come out and say before the house vote, of course, he supports it, i talked to him on the phone, he tells me he s behind it the way it is currently. by the white house statement that came out said he supports the short term resolution, but it wasn t clear as mitch mcconnell brought up on the
the president is always looking to assign blame. is he at this point assigning blame inside the white house that we are at the government shutdown threshold. so far president trump is blaming democrats for the fact that there might be a government shutdown and specifically the fact that they want to see the pathway for citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers in a bill pass here, however if you look at what the president said this morning, it was the president who undermined his own strategy by sending out the tweet about the children s health insurance program, which muddied the waters on whether or not he supported the short term resolution. and then you had paul ryan come out and say before the house vote, of course, he supports it, i talked to him on the phone, he tells me he s behind it the way it is currently. by the white house statement that came out said he supports the short term resolution, but it wasn t clear as mitch mcconnell brought up on the
he s trying to hold the vote open till tomorrow because he thinks it will put more pressure on them. this is a manufactured shutdown by the republicans. here is the most extraordinary thing i have ever heard a senate leader say in a situation like this. here s mitch mcconnell saying tonight on the senate floor that he does not know what the president wants. let s listen to this. the presidency, under our constitutional system is not irrelevant. he s the person who signs things into law. and for most of us in the house and senate on the republican side, we re interested in what his views are. and those have not been made fully apparent yet. that s a moment we have never seen in a situation like this before. and we ve never seen a president have an affair with a porn star either. so these are weeks and days of firsts, i suppose.